get all elements

[Chris Fairclough]

I am trying to retrieve a list of elements by the xpath //* to get all elements in the heirarchy. 

This is so that my code can process a number of possibilities across different devices at this point in the test.

List<WebElement> oElems = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//*"));

It's not working on a HTC one with the error message

debug: Pushing command to appium work queue: ["find",{"strategy":"index paths","selector":",/0,/0/0","multiple":true}]

debug: [BOOTSTRAP] [debug] Got data from client: {"cmd":"action","action":"find","params":{"strategy":"index paths","selector":",/0,/0/0","multiple":true}}

debug: [BOOTSTRAP] [debug] Got command of type ACTION

debug: [BOOTSTRAP] [debug] Got command action: find

debug: [BOOTSTRAP] [debug] Finding ,/0,/0/0 using INDEX_PATHS with the contextId: null multiple: true

debug: [BOOTSTRAP] [debug] Returning result: {"status":13}

debug: Responding to client with error: {"status":13,"value":{"message":"An unknown server-side error occurred while processing the command."},"sessionId":"d607fe8d-a731-46b1-b22c-443ca28d7f39"}

And then it's throwing an exception back to the java.

Any idea how I can get this to work?

[Chris Fairclough]

It seems that the xpath selector is not going to work for me - 

but I still want to find all elements - by.name("*") and by.classname("*") don't work either although they do not crash, they just return 0 elements.

[Isaac Murchie]

You can try using the UIAutomator API. Something like `driver.elementsByAndroidUIAutomator('new UiSelector()')`. I don't know the syntax in Java.

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[Pop Vasile]

This is one way to do it in Java:
List<WebElement> list = driver.findElementsByAndroidUIAutomator("new UiSelector().classNameMatches(\".*\")")

[Chris Fairclough]

Thanks guys!

[Chris Fairclough]

I have new problem now !

Any chance you guys could look at this issue too ?

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/appium-discuss/S0GDlJUHit4

[fora...@gmail.com]

Hi Chris,

I  saw in other post that your java Appium setting is at least running mine is not running can you please share your Opium  set-ups including capabilities.

Thanks,

[Jonah Stiennon]

btw: Getting all elements by XPath is fixed in version 1.2.1

[Chris Fairclough]

I don't have any opium set-ups, sorry can't help you, check the documentation for instructions on capabilities. 

BTW the appiumdevicename is deviceclass in ios and on android it's deviceid if that helps.